‘I Will Teach You to Be Rich’ founder shares ‘big win checklist’

For Ramit Sethi, hell is getting to 40 or 50 years old and struggling to find time to go to the gym.

So the 34-year-old personal finance guru,New York Timesbestselling author ofI Will Teach You to Be Rich and self-described obsessive optimizer put his methodical, problem-solving tendencies to work.

The result was a five-point plan he calls the "Big Win Checklist." Sethi's goal for the checklist is to address basic life maintenance, so he could be free to spend his energy on his other more creative and exciting ideas and projects.